Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
Eat the Document is a compelling story of activism, sacrifice and the cost of living a secret. It tells the story of two lovers, passionately committed 1970s anti-war protestors who, as a consequence of choices made back then, have had to erase their pasts, forge new identities and never see each other again. Dana Spiotta illuminates the buried connections between past and present language, music, technology and activism with coolness and precision, creating a multi-faceted portrait of three decades in America. 'A mesmerising journey: from bomber to motherhood, from American subversive to middle-aged widow ...Dana Spiotta runs the narrative intrigue with assurance, linking the youth-culture disaffection of the 1970s drop-outs with the dissidence of the 1990s generation. The mental energy in this novel is absorbing. Spiotta expresses its diversity with such nuance that it makes you gasp' Scotland on Sunday 'Perceptive and intelligent ...cool, verbally smart and socially astute' Independent 'Her prose has the calm, ghostly precision of a surgical needle ...A dark, gripping quasi-thriller that, as it digs deep into America's post-war counterculture, challenges as much as it beguiles' Metro 'A major American writer . ..the only female writer I know whose prose reminds me of the cool ambient poetry and steely precision of Don DeLillo ...Eat the Document is as darkly exact and thrilling as the political novels of Joan Didion' Bret Easton Ellis
Dana Spiotta is the author of Stone Arabia, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Lightning Field. Spiotta received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the Rome Prize for Literature. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches in the creative writing programme at Syracuse University. In 2017 she was recipient of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330448291 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330448293 |
| Title | Eat the Document |
| Author | Dana Spiotta |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2008-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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